1814.] Canal, Dock, &c. Shares-Government Annuities. Miles W. Stockton, grocer, Oct. 15 Mills T. Sun street, Bishopsgate street, stay maker, Smith G. Swansea, tobacco manufacturer, Oct. 27 Oct. 18 Morris W. Madely, brick maker, Nov. 8 Morris W. Lutterworth, cattle dealer, Oct. 25 Rogerson J. and J. Sotby, Lincoln, merchants, Oct. 15 Sanderson J.-Leeds, linen merchant, Oct. 15 Taylor W. Liverpool, merchant, Oct 29 Thomas J. Machen, Monmouth, ironmaster, Oct. 15 Rates of Government Life Annuities, payable at the Bank of England. 3 per cent. Stocks being now 65, and under 66. A single life of 35 receives for 100l stock £4 16 0 average rate 100l. money £7 6, 7 N. B. The annexed is a short scale of some of the rates, upon which Government àre now granting Life Annuities: they are payable half-yearly, at the Bank of England, the same as the dividends, and may be received by power of attorney. The Life-Annuity Act having been amended, they may henceforward be purchased when the 3 per cent, Consols, or Reduced-Annuities, are at or above 50. Annuities are granted on Joint Lives also. Particulars may be had, gratis, at the Government Life-Annuity Office, Bank-street; er by writing to theSuperintendant, if the postage be paid, 394 Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange. [Nov. 1. Table containing the Prices of Bullion and Courses of Exchange, from the 30th of Sept. to the 25th, Oct. 1814, shewing the Intrinsic Value of Bullion in Great Britain, and the Intrinsic Pars of Exchange, according to the Mint Regulations for thee of Gold and Silver at the respective Places; shewing also the extreme High Price of Bullion, and extreme Courses of occasioned by the extended Commercial Proscription that prevailed throughout Europe in the Yeurs 1811, 1812, and ge, Portuguese Gold in Coin. per ounce 85s. 865. 87. 875. Do. in Bars standard, do. 77s. 10 d 111s. 85s. 858. 85S. 85%. 86s. 878. 87s. New Doubloons, do. 83s. 83s. 83s. 83s. 83s. 6d 868. Silver in Bars, standard, do. 62d. 848. New Dollars, do. 59,તા. Hamburg bills at sight or on demand, per Pound Sterling 34 3 3 35 123 132 Do. at two and a half or three months date, do.. 349 O Paris, at sight or on demand, do. 35 25 21 24 7 23 9 32 73 17 15 122 8022 8022 86/22 8022 8022 8022 8022 80 Do. at two to three months date do. 25 45 25 0 17 32 23 Amsterdam, at sight or on demand, do. 37 5 0 38 1 29 8 35 Do. at two to three month date do. 37 100 38 6 30 0 35 Rotterdam, do. 11 4 5 11 8 5 9 Leghorn, Pence Sterling per Pezza, or Current Dollar 49 1 46 67 61 Genoa, do. do. do. 45 59 46 54 49 49 19 49 49 49 Venice, Livre per Pound Sterling* 46 28 47 5 52 28 8024 24 24 24 24 24 Naples, Pence Sterling per Ducat Cadiz, do. per Piastre or Current Dollar 37 3 39 22 51 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Lisbon, do. per Milrea 67 4 69 4 66 66 66 06 66 Dublin, per cent, discount Cork, do. 699 294500e7 52 +91 49 * The French Livre has lately been introduced. DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM SEPTEMBER 26, TO OCTOBER 25, 1814, BOTH INCLUSIVE. India So. Sea So. Sea New S15 per Ct. 3 per Dy Consol (St. Lot. 1 Exchequer Bill Office, Oct. 12, 1814. All Exchequer Bills dated in the months of August and September, 1813, have been advertised to be paid off, (or exchanged for New Bills JAMES WETENHALL. Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel court, Bartholomew-lane, London, As some errors crept into the Mathematical Series in Mr. Taylor's communication in our last Number, page 230, we here subjoin a correct copy : 48-16+32-64 &c.—4 +16+64 &c. 3 instead of 2 2+1-1=2 2 1 3 5 11 21 43 85 1 1 11 2+1-1=1 -24-8 +16-32+64-128 &c. 2+8+32 +128 &c. 2+1—1—2—4+8-16+32-64 &c. 4+16+64 &c.1 instead of 1} In the same Number, page 209, column 1, line 2 and 3, for nine hundred, read nine hundred and fifty thousand. Ibid. lines 4 and 5, for two thousand three hundred and ninety-four millions, read two thousand three hundred and forty-seven millions seven hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred and fifty-six. J. GILLET, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street, London. THE MONTHLY MAGAZINES have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. The intelligence and discussion contained in them are very extensive and various; and they have been the means of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which in a certain degree hath enlarged the public understanding. HERE, too, are preserved a multitude of useful hints, observations, and facts, which other wise might have never appeared.--Dr. Kippis. Every Art is improved by the emulation of Competitors.---Dr. Johnson. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. On the PROPORTION between the CATHO- IRELAND. To the Editor of the New Monthly Magazine. I FEEL myself again under the necessity of animadverting upon Mr. Wakefield's account of Ireland. That gentleman, speaking of the Roman Catholics, says, that they form six sevenths of the population of the country. This, Sir, is that kind of general assertion which it is not easy to contradict with effect, as it does not come within the reach of many persons to be furnished with materials to controvert it; and merely to contradict it is only leaving the matter where it was. Fortunately I have the materials before me necessary for the confutation of Mr. Wakefield's position. In the year 1793 an exact enumeration of all the houses in Ireland was made by Mr. Bush, from the returns of the hearth money collectors; by that return it was found, that in all Ireland the numbers were 701,102 houses, in Ulster alone 222,879, nearly one-third of the whole. By the late returns made by the grand juries, which I have also me, I find that the proportion of population is still more in favour of Ulster at present than it was in the former return by Mr. Bush. Now, Sir, I assume that the province of Ulster, which contains at least a third of the Irish population, is all Protestant; not, however, that there are no Roman Catholics in Ulster, for that would be untrue; but that the Protestants inhabiting the other provinces, of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, are at least as numerous as the Roman Catholics who inhabit Ulster; and therefore that the Protestants are one in three, instead of one in seven. Such are the grounds upon which I go; if Mr. Wakefield chooses to controvert them, I am ready to meet him with other facts, at least as stubborn. before NEW MONTHLY MAG,-No. 11 It is truly inconceivable how this writer, who must have seen the north of Ireland, could have been so uninformed respecting the religious persuasion of the inhabitants of Ulster; how he could avoid being acquainted with the Protestant colonization of that province in the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First; and why he should wish to magnify the Roman Catholic numbers, except to give more force to his pathetic lamentations over their political degradation, of which he is so profuse, and which affords a text, upon which the Edinburgh Reviewers preach such edifying homilies, for the elucidation of the principles of civil and religious liberty. Give them but a text to their minds, and they will pursue it; aye, they will pursue it to the utter neglect, and total oblivion, of the work which they profess to review; but part of what these gentlemen say on the subject of Roman Catholic disqualifications, in their review of Mr. Wakefield, cannot be passed over in silence. They ask, "Could the religion of Sir Thomas More, or of Fenelon, disqualify men for being members of civil society?" To this question I shall reply by another; Did not that religion so far pervert the understanding of Sir Thomas More, that he condemned Bainham the lawyer to be burned for heresy? and did it not so far subvert the principles of Fenelon as to make him descend to the subterfuge of personating a Protestant clergyman, and under that disguise to allow himself to be overcome in an argument by his friend, (I believe) Langeron, at a conference held for the purpose of deceiving a Protestant gentleman into the renouncing his religion, in which, however, they failed? That political disqualifications should be the consequence of religious tenets, is contrary to the theory of a Protestant Who wishes for the anecdote at full the life of Fenelon, by who glories in it. |